well I can only say this, if i have still the life in me and the milage then I
may take it all up.
However thats easier said than done ofcause.
Right now I am home with my parents, at age 28.
I don't need to do most of the cooking or rather anything and I don't work.
whilst I may never fully go indipendant due to my lazyness though I will try, I
suspect if I ever got more of a life, since I really don't have a standard life
that means anything I may have to leave this list perminantly.
So long and short is that if I am still on this list at 80 then I will probably
go ahead.
At 10:58 p.m. 8/11/2009, you wrote:
>Me too. And i'll be thirty next year. Quite depressing sometimes. I have a
>feeling that by the time accessibility is ever a standard feature in
>mainstream games or that it's decided that it would be worthwhile to make a
>sidemarket for them, I'll be too old and set in my ways, the same as the
>unlikely event that a car is ever designed that a totally blind person could
>drive totally independently and safely.
>Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza?
>Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <shau...@xtra.co.nz>
>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
>Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 1:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Future of accessible games
>
>
>><sigh>
>>its a shame I will be middle aged or so before that even starts, heck I may
>>be dead before anything happens, that really is just suckfull.
>>I have actually no idea what will happen if I really get a real job.
>>I have time to bother with email lists, podcasts, etc.
>>But I wander what would happen if I ever got a real job, like one that took
>>most of the week.
>>I wander if I would just go away, scary that.
>>Never contemplated going off gaming but have to concider it.
>>At 07:02 a.m. 8/11/2009, you wrote:
>>>My own personal belief, is that what will change access will also be the
>>>force which will change the Uk libraries thinking on accessible books, -----
>>>time.
>>>
>>>There is no point denying, %70 of visually impared people are over the age
>>>of 60, ----- and %50 are over the age of 70.
>>>
>>>Currently, that comprises people who grew up in the 1940's and 50's.
>>>
>>>such people are not naturally interested in science fiction, fantasy or,
>>>---- by extention computer games.
>>>
>>>At a recent doctor who convention however, the oldest people there were my
>>>dad's age, betwene 50 and 60, ---- having grown up in the 1960's, ----
>>>much like my parents, they watched Doctor who, original Startrek, Blake 7,
>>>quatermass, buck rogers etc.
>>>
>>>Over the next ten years, that group of people will start to lose their
>>>sight, ---- and will have significantly different reading interests to those
>>>who grew up ten years earlier.
>>>
>>>thus, sf books and films will have to be made accessible for them.
>>>
>>>Similarly, people who grew up in the 1970's with the Atari 2600 etc; playing
>>>games like Joust, space invaders, original If etc, are currently 40 or so.
>>>
>>>the head of retroremakes.com, ---- a die hard gamer if there ever was one,
>>>is himself 40.
>>>
>>>In 20 years, when these people begin to lose their sight, they aren't going
>>>to want to give up life long gaming hobbies simply because they can no
>>>longer see.
>>>
>>>At that stage, game companies, both mainstream and independent will suddenly
>>>have a group of older customers who will demand games, ---
>>>and, ---- as Bryan said earlier, it won't be quite so devorced from public
>>>consciousness when grandma Jones wants to play her atari but can't because
>>>she can no longer see the screen.
>>>
>>>Game companies and independent developers have already produced adaptations
>>>for both deaf and physically impared people, ---- but (even with deafness),
>>>in these cases they are disabilities which affect a larger proportion of
>>>younger people who are themselves playing and buying computer games.
>>>
>>>Were circumstances reversed, I could well imagine those self same people on
>>>gamespot who said a blind person playing a graphical game was impossible,
>>>would say it was similarly impossible for someone who was paralized from the
>>>kneck down to play graphical games, ---- yet head tracker adapTations for pc
>>>games and the wii eXIST, ---- AND WHILE NOT PERFECT, CERTAINLY ALLOW PEOPLE
>>>WITH SUCH DISABILITIES TO PLAY MORE GAMES THAN PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAREMENT
>>>CAN.
>>>
>>>I'm thus very much of the opinion that the situation will indeed change,
>>>----- though convincing game companies (or library services for that
>>>matter), of the truth of this is something of an uphill struggle currently.
>>>
>>>Beware the grue!
>>>
>>>Dark.
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